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==News about Herbal Remedies==
==News about Herbal Remedies==
*[http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/woman-hospitalised-by-chinese-herbal-remedy-20140828-109cw4.html Woman hospitalised by Chinese herbal remedy]. August 28, 2014 : A Melbourne woman who took a traditional Chinese herbal remedy of dried plants and scorpions ended up in hospital in life-threatening condition, prompting warnings from medical experts.
The woman visited her herbal practitioner with back pain and was given the mixture to be used as a painkiller and to improve circulation, the medical journal Emergency Medicine Australasia reports.
She was told to boil the mixture for 45 minutes but drank it after only 30 minutes and quickly felt tingling in her face, followed by nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach pain, according to the medical research, published in the journal on Thursday
*[http://www.kew.org/news/herbal-medicine-through-an-evolutionary-lens.htm Herbal medicine through an evolutionary lens]. March 5, 2013: There is often scepticism surrounding traditional herbal treatments, partly due to scarcity in large-scale evidence of efficacy of traditional medicine. A team of researchers from Kew, the University of Reading, Imperial College and RBG Edinburgh, in collaboration with colleagues from Nepal and New Zealand, have conducted a phylogenetic study that provides support for herbal remedies.
*[http://www.kew.org/news/herbal-medicine-through-an-evolutionary-lens.htm Herbal medicine through an evolutionary lens]. March 5, 2013: There is often scepticism surrounding traditional herbal treatments, partly due to scarcity in large-scale evidence of efficacy of traditional medicine. A team of researchers from Kew, the University of Reading, Imperial College and RBG Edinburgh, in collaboration with colleagues from Nepal and New Zealand, have conducted a phylogenetic study that provides support for herbal remedies.


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